Category: Interesting

April 22, 2024

Outdated software – a gap in security

While the world continues to focus down on improving cybersecurity in the face of increasing threats, outdated software is rapidly becoming one of the least addressed gaps in security. The issue is a known one in cybersecurity circles, having been brought up by CISA, among others. Unupdated systems are a common failure point; even when […]

April 15, 2024

Should you use a Public or Private Cloud?

With a vast part of the business world continuing to migrate their data and systems to the Cloud, a bewildering array of Cloud options have sprung into being. Among the various...

April 8, 2024

Archiving challenges following Veritas’ merger

One of the giants in archiving, Veritas has dominated the scene for decades. As with other companies, however, this has left them a slow-moving giant not flexible enough to easily...

April 1, 2024

NIS2 – mandatory disaster recovery

As we’ve covered previously, the cybersecurity space is becoming increasingly heavily regulated. This is nowhere more apparent than in the European Union, where a series of...

March 18, 2024

Why migrate from Metalogix Archive Manager?

Metalogix Archive Manager is an older archiving system owned by Quest. It is one of the major established solutions on the market, with a spread of different products and services...

March 17, 2024

EdgeWave merges with contentACCESS Cloud

EdgeWave archive is no longer going to be on offer or available, with the domain slowly being spun down. Accordingly, EdgeWave is being merged with contentACCESS Cloud; current...

March 11, 2024

Your Teams data increased – why and what can you do?

One of the biggest concerns for organizations in this day and age continues to be swelling data volumes, a subject that we’ve covered before. It’s especially relevant for...

March 4, 2024

Cybersecurity field continues to grow into 2024

Continuing trends from the last years, cybersecurity continues to grow into 2024 as we reach Q2 of this year. We have already seen a number of cyberattacks and breaches of major...

February 26, 2024

What is DORA, and how will it affect your business?

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is an EU regulation that entered into force on 16 January 2023 and will apply as of 17 January 2025. Following on to a long list of...

February 16, 2024

Arcserve Cloud Services announces End of Life

In a surprising move that has left many Managed Service Providers (MSPs) in a lurch, Arcserve, a renowned developer of storage and data protection software, has announced the...

February 12, 2024

Customer Data – A New Cybersecurity Focus

The issues surrounding cybersecurity have been a constantly reiterated theme. This included discussions of ransomware, of maintaining your business continuity, and of managing to...

February 5, 2024

Data retention and deletion – a key concern

Government regulation continues to mount regarding the future of data retention and deletion, a key aspect in national and international legislation. At the same time,...

January 29, 2024

Data Protection Day 2024

This weekend was Data Protection Day for the year 2024. On 26 April 2006 the Council of Europe decided to launch a Data Protection Day to be celebrated each year on 28 January....

June 9, 2021

Even Microsoft Exchange server can become a weak point in your data security

Did you know that over 30,000 websites are hacked every day? Internet’s attendance in our daily lives has become even more common in the last two years. COVID-19 has forced...

February 14, 2020

How cybercriminals take over your email account

Researchers from Barracuda and UC Berkeley, conducting a large-scale analysis of email account takeover and the timeline of attacks, recently highlighted the behaviors hackers are...

January 31, 2020

Moving Forward: 7 Tips for a Successful Practice Data Migration

Accounting practice management systems are coming of age. Early products for accounting firms came to market before the advent of cloud computing. Many were built on databases and...

December 19, 2019

Hackers go phishing for the holidays

It’s that time of year again. Everyone’s busy – at work and at home. That includes cybercriminals, too. In fact, the holiday season is when busy, distracted people tend to...

December 5, 2019

Top 5 Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Predictions for 2020

We distilled 30 independent reports dedicated to cybersecurity and cybercrime predictions for 2020 and compiled the top 5 most interesting findings and projections in this post....

November 15, 2019

Avoiding legacy technology stagnation – the importance of staying refreshed

In today’s hyper-competitive world, everything needs to be done faster, despite greater constraints and tighter budgets. So, it’s no wonder that when organisations face the...

November 13, 2019

Fear of cloud migration is holding back some IT leaders

Over three-quarters of IT leaders believe in moving Financial and Human Capital Management applications to the cloud, according to a new report. Computing Research found that 77...